Ian Dreiblatt is a poet, translator, essayist, and teacher who lives in New York City. His poetry collection forget thee was publisned by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2021, and his most recent translation, Dmitry Furman’s Imitation Democracy, was published by Verso Books in 2022. His interests include the history intellectual anti-authoritarianism, the mass culture of socialism, and soup. He lives on a hot wet rock suspended in incomprehensibility with people he loves.